ABEA
Adult Basic Education Authorization-The authorization is a state-issued credential for adult educators in Colorado. It is the minimum professional standard for instructors in Colorado adult education programs that receive AEFLA funding.

ADA
Americans with Disabilities Act – federal law that protects civil rights of the disabled in public accommodations (buildings), employment, transportation, government services, and telecommunications

EF
Employment First - A federally mandated program designed to ensure that all able- bodied food stamp participants funded by the US Dept. of Agriculture clients are engaged in activities that will improve their employability.

EFL
Educational Functioning Level – The levels at which adult learners in AEFLA-funded programs are initially placed based on their ability to perform literacy-related tasks in specific content areas.

IELCE
Integrated English Literacy and Civics Education - Federal grant funds, made available under AEFLA, to enable local programs to provide integrated English literacy and civics education services to immigrants and other limited English proficient populations. (Formerly EL/Civics)

ITA
Individual Training Accounts - Workforce Investment Act funds used to pay for training; or a voucher system established under WIA. It is part of the set of services available to those customers needing specific occupational skill attainment.

M

MALDEF
Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund

MALL
Metro Area Learning Leaders

MARC
Machine Readable Cataloging

MATES
Metro Area Transportation

MBQC
Malcolm Baldrige Quality Criteria - Named for the late U.S. Secretary of Commerce, a national program to stimulate companies to become competitive in the area of quality management using leadership, strategic planning, customer and market focus, information and analysis, human resources, process management, and business results.

PEBC
Public Education & Business Coalition (A nonprofit partnership of Colorado education and business leaders dedicated to developing the intellectual and scholarly practices of educators across the continuum of their professional lives so our schools are worthy of our students)

PEER
Prompts the child to say something about the book, Evaluates the response, Expands the child's response, Repeats the prompt. Dialogic reading prompts.